It's week 15 of #52AncestralPlaces2024 in which I celebrate my ancestors' places. Today we're in the Scottish Borders, looking at the town of Duns in the days when it was known as Dunse.
My mum used to recite a poem which began with the line:
Poor Duns has lost its 'e'...

With all the excitement of the Easter weekend, I didn't post anything last #MapMonday for my #52AncestralPlaces2024 thing!
So today I'm posting 2 for the price of 1: the 1881 and 1903 OS 25' maps showing my Annal and Christie ancestors' ancestral homes in South Ronaldsay, Orkney.

It's week 16 of #52AncestralPlaces2024 and today I'm in the stunningly well-preserved Wiltshire village of Lacock, home for many hundreds of years to my Truman ancestors.
This map, dating from 1764, is from the Lacock Unlocked website wshc.org.uk/lacock/ run by Heritage@WSHC

For #52AncestralPlaces2024 week #17 I'm taking advantage of Google Maps satellite view to zoom in on one my wife's ancestral places. Her maternal grandmother's ancestors had been among the first 'colonists' of Hohengrieben, a settlement founded by Frederick II of Prussia in 1748.